The Enforced Disappearance of Citizen Mohammad Mahmoud since 2015

SNHR briefed the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary disappearances, of the case of the citizen “Mohammad Mahmoud” from Tadmur city in east of Homs governorate, age 25 at the time of his arrest and asked to request of the Syrian authorities to release him as he was arrested arbitrarily on January 15, 2015, as the military security forces of Syrian regime forces raided his house in al Gharbi neighborhood in Tadmur city. Since then, his fate remains unknown for the Syrian Network for Human Rights as well as his family.

Syrian authorities deny enforcing the citizen Mohammad Mahmoud to disappear, SNHR were unable to determine his fate until now, as is his family, and they are afraid of detention and torture in the event of repeating questions about him, as happened with many similar cases.

SNHR demanded the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearance to intervene with the Syrian authorities for his immediate release, and the release of thousands of cases of enforced disappearances and the need to determine their fate.

And despite the fact that the Syrian government is not a party of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearances, but in contrast Party on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant, and the Arab Charter on Human Rights, which enforced disappearances violates both provisions.

The Syrian Network for Human Rights, founded in June 2011, is a non-governmental, non-profit independent organization that is a primary source for the United Nations on all death toll-related statistics in Syria